different between gripping vs tripping

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gripping (comparative more gripping, superlative most gripping)

Which catches someone's attention; exciting
a gripping action film
Synonyms: interesting, absorbing, fascinating

gripping

gripping (plural grippings)

Obsolete form of griping. (pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines)
- 1727, Alexander Hamilton, A new account of the East Indies
  The same Night it began to operate by Grippings and Sweating, and he being bred a Surgeon, took some Medicines to correct the Grippings, which in some Measure the Medicine did, but he lost his Appetite […]

tripping

tripping (comparative more tripping, superlative most tripping)

Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly.
(heraldry, not comparable) Having the right forefoot lifted, the others remaining on the ground, as if trotting; trippant.
a buck tripping
(slang) Undergoing a hallucinogenic trip.
(African-American Vernacular) Saying crazy things.

tripping (plural trippings)

The act of one who trips.
- 1821, The Recreative Review, or Eccentricities of Literature and Life
  At present we only produce some of those slips and trippings of the tongue and pen to which we are all liable in our unguarded moments […]

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